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- The novel traces the growth of the United States through the decline of the once-powerful socially prominent Amberson family. Their fall is contrasted with the rise of new industrial tycoons and land developers, whose power comes not through family connections but through financial dealings and modern manufacturing.
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The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 American period drama written, produced, and directed by Orson Welles. Welles adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1918 novel about the declining fortunes of a wealthy Midwestern family and the social changes brought by the automobile age.
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his Growth trilogy after The Turmoil (1915) and before The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction .
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a ...
Complete summary of Booth Tarkington's The Magnificent Ambersons. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Magnificent Ambersons.
The Magnificent Ambersons: Directed by Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise. With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt. The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
- (27K)
- Drama, Romance
- Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise
- 1942-07-10
The Magnificent Ambersons, the story of the financial fall of a rich Midwestern family with a firm belief in the untouchability of their social ranking which fails to adapt to the new era of automobiles, is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1918 novel written by Booth Tarkington.
The Magnificent Ambersons, American dramatic film, released in 1942, that was director Orson Welles’s much-anticipated follow-up to his masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941). The film, which was based on the 1918 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Booth Tarkington, is as infamous for its production problems.
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